The first table below looks at the demand for Cognos Business Intelligence skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cognos Business Intelligence over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Business Applications category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (Cognos BI)
Rank 85 89 104
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence 1 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.094% 0.219% 0.063%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.381% 3.947% 1.724%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
Average salary £54,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+35.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £43,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+8.75% -11.11%
All Business Applications
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
42 76 58
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 3.947% 5.560% 3.657%
Number of salaries quoted 34 68 52
Average salary £42,500 £52,500 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.04% +22.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £40,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Cognos Business Intelligence
Scotland

Cognos Business Intelligence
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

Edinburgh Cognos Business Intelligence Jobs Demand Trend

Cognos Business Intelligence
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Cognos Business Intelligence Salary Trend

Cognos Business Intelligence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Cognos Business Intelligence also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Cognos Business Intelligence.

1 4 (100.00%) Cognos
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) SAS
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (25.00%) OLAP
3 1 (25.00%) Business Objects
3 1 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) Cognos Powerplay
3 1 (25.00%) Cognos Impromptu
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (25.00%) Informatica
3 1 (25.00%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (25.00%) SPSS
3 1 (25.00%) DataStage
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Ab Initio
3 1 (25.00%) Teradata

Cognos Business Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Cognos Business Intelligence also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Cognos Business Intelligence. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (25.00%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos Controller
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos Planning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (25.00%) OLAP
2 1 (25.00%) Cognos Powerplay
2 1 (25.00%) Cognos Impromptu
2 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (25.00%) DataStage
2 1 (25.00%) Spotfire
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (25.00%) QlikView
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (25.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) IBM InfoSphere
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Business Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Cognos Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Cognos Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Data Conversion
1 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Development
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cognos
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Business Objects
3 1 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Informatica
3 1 (25.00%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (25.00%) Ab Initio
3 1 (25.00%) Teradata
3 1 (25.00%) Netezza
3 1 (25.00%) DataFlux
3 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Favoured Technical Skills: OLAP and Reporting : SAP BusinessObjects, Cognos, Microstrategy, OBIEE, SAS, Microsoft, Qlikview, Tableau, Spotfire, Pentaho... ETL and Data Cleansing : Informatica, IBM InfoSphere DataStage , AbInitio, Oracle, DataFlux,...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £68,000 per annum with a number of fantastic additiona
Posted: 20 May 2013